What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Opinion Quotes
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
When I want your opinion I’ll give it to you.
If I want your opinion, I’ll read your entrails.
Judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
(One of Madison’s favorite stories involved a vain French officer who asked a fellow officer to be frank in revealing what the world thought of him. The fellow officer said:) The opinion of the world is divided: the men say you are an old woman; And the women say you are an old man.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
